I boiled a pot of boiling water at night, and when I poured hot water into the thermos with the kettle, the heat instantly floated out, and it felt especially warm on a winter night!
And this scene instantly reminds me of when I was a child, when the adults in the family often drank tea and chatted with the adults in the neighborhood.
At that time, my family lived in a family room provided by the hospital where my parents worked. Those of us who live in the family room can easily enjoy a special benefit of the hospital, that is, we can drink the boiled water from the hospital. At that time, the hospital was at the gate of the large courtyard and had a guard room. In addition to the guards on duty, the guard room also has another important function, which is to boil water. There was a small boiler there, and I remember the first time I saw it when I was a kid, and I was a little nervous because it looked like a bomb!Especially every time the water is boiled, there is a whistle valve on it, and the hot air of the boiling water will be sprayed out from there, and the whistle will be blown very loudly!This is a signal that the water is boiling, so many people, family members of hospitalized patients, hospital employees, etc., all come and take thermos bottles and start turning on the water.
This kind of scene is even more interesting in the winter, because the room will be filled with hot water vapor, and if you look at it from the outside, it will feel like someone is constantly coming out of the cloud of water vapor, like a trick!At that time, it felt much colder than it is now!So when people come out, they are shaved and breathed out of their mouths as if everyone was smoking. So in the not too big guard's room, the red coal fire in the big water boiler, and the clouds of water vapor like thick clouds surround it, but it gives people a good feeling of warmth!
Maybe because of this, the guard room at the entrance of the hospital compound was a good place for many people to chat and relax!So it's generally lively there!Especially when it comes to eating, some people use the "refractory brick" (a kind of brick that is thicker and stronger than ordinary bricks, not afraid of fire, and can retain heat for a long time), put it in the stove of the boiler for a while, and then take out the refractory brick, put it in the place, and put the lunch box they brought on the refractory brick to eat hot rice. So the kind of refractory bricks at that time were equivalent to today's microwave ovens. (By the way, if you see that kind of brick, you must be careful, don't touch it easily, because it doesn't change color no matter how it is burned.) It is estimated that it is rarely seen now. ）
Seeing that their meals are also very fragrant!Especially for some people who love to drink, often two or three sit around the fire, a few hairy vegetables, a bottle of old wine, you talk and laugh a word, from time to time "sip" a sip of wine, "bar" a mouthful of food, I look really greedy!
And the master who works in the guard room also has a "special function", which is the "emergency call" function. What do you mean?At that time, the communication conditions were not developed, and it was not possible for all doctors to install ** at home (I remember that at that time, a ** machine was installed at home, which was more worthy of "Xianbei" than buying a luxury car now!Huh!So, what if there is a patient in the hospital who needs an emergency room at night?Therefore, the doorman has a particularly important job: he must clearly know the home address of each doctor, and then if there is a patient who needs emergency and urgently needs a doctor to visit, the doorman will quickly ride a bicycle to the doctor's house to find the doctor to come and receive the doctor. For this important task, the hospital also specially equipped the master with a bicycle!To have a "bus" is a good treatment!
By the way, there is another old man in the guard room, I also remember, he is on duty during the day. It is said that he was born as a soldier and has a great figure!His home is more than 10 kilometers away from the hospital, but he doesn't ride a bicycle and walks to and from the hospital every day. The old man's biggest feature is that he is "very clean"!His "love of cleanliness" is the cleanliness that you can clearly feel when you are around him: for example, his clothes, although very simple, can clearly feel that they are all freshly washed, his hair is always as if he has just been washed and combed, his beard is neatly cut, and he often sweeps the floor of the house clean. At that time, people smoked a lot, and cigarette butts were thrown casually, so he swept often, often, and often.
East and west, think of what to talk to everyone, nothing else, is to hope that in the winter season, I hope we can all think of more warmth, after all, sometimes, in addition to the beautiful sunshine can bring us a lot of warmth, there are many things worth thinking about when we think about the very warm past. I believe that my friends must also have a lot of warm stories and pasts worth remembering.
If it's warm to think about, then let's think about it.